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title: "ZiPatch (.patch)"
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{{< note "This documentation is incomplete." >}}

Contains various deltas to be applied on top of existing game or boot data.

I recommend reading the ["ZiPatch" section](https://xiv.dev/data-files/zipatch) on xiv.dev.

# Alternative Implementations

* [Physis (Rust)](https://git.sr.ht/~redstrate/physis/tree/main/item/src/patch.rs)
* [libxiv (C++)](https://git.sr.ht/~redstrate/libxiv/tree/main/item/src/patch.cpp)